Politics as a Christian Vocation: Faith and Democracy Today

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Cambridge University Press, 2005 - 185 páginas
Franklin Gamwell argues that Christian faith belongs in politics because it shares with democracy complete commitment to the rational pursuit of the truth. Gamwell develops ideals of justice and the common good that good Christians should advocate within the democratic process and demonstrates the difference they make for contemporary sharescs in the United States. He focuses specifically on withes of abortion, affirmative action, and economic abortiontion.
 

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Render to Caesar
7
Government by the People
21
2
28
3
56
Justice in the Community of Love
79
Religious Decisions at Stake
106
Political Deliberations
130
Appendix On the Humanistic Commitment
165
Works Cited
173
Index
177
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Franklin I. Gamwell is Shailer Mathews Professor of Religious Ethics, Theology, and Philosophy of Religions at The Divinity School, The University of Chicago where he has taught since 1979. He is the author of four previous books including, most recently, Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God (2000).

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